Case Study: Wheretoget.it

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When Wheretoget.it came to us they were already a massive community with more
than 3 million monthly users. The expansion was very quick, and they’ve started
to crumble under their own weight.

When new features were introduced, they often broke existing
code. Making even a small change was painful. That made the site not only hard to
maintain but slowed the pace of development as each change required a lot of manual
testing and bug hunting.

Unfortunately, this was also beginning to affect the community, due to frequent
outages and was threating its growth.

That’s when we began talking with them. Initially we started small, with just some
critical parts of the site. Refactoring and adding new features and a lot of new
automated tests. Gradually this allowed us to increase the speed of development.

However, we soon realized that the problem was not only on the software side but
also on the infrastructure part.

We applied a lot of best DevOps practices and optimized what they used. At the
end the bill for all cloud services was cut by half while the site could
handle much more capacity with less resources and was secured against malicious attacks.

Wheretoget.it has popular iOS and Android apps, written in Objective-C and Java,
and used by more than half a million users.

They had similar issues to the web app, with existing bugs fixed too slowly and
adding new features was taking too much time. Users were getting frustrated with
both of those.

After the success with the web app they also invited us to take over the two mobile
apps so that we can leverage our existing expertise in mobile development on both
iOS and Android.

In addition, to increase the speed of development even more, we set up and managed
an additional team of experts in web and mobile development.

At the end Wheretoget.it has become a much faster website with shorter load times,
more redundant and stable infrastructure, which was much easier to maintain and
develop new features.